one Miami radio executive to call him "the most consistent performer among men 25-54 that this market has ever seen." In June 1998, WAMI-TV ran Neil at Night, which was a 30-minute television show of The Neil Rogers Show. Neil at Night aired twice a night at 8:30 PM and 10:30 PM. The program consisted of filmed highlights of Neil's radio monologues and interactions with callers. Neil at Night was cancelled in January 1999. Earlier in his career, Neil had a short-lived television show on "Channel 51" WKID-TV that lasted a just a few episodes. ESPN reporter Shannon Spake served briefly as an intern for The Neil Rogers Show in 1999. Rogers also had a devoted audience in Europe and around the world who listened via the Internet. He has been targeted from time to time by local activists who find him offensive; one, Jack Thompson, a former Miami attorney, unsuccessfully sued Rogers and his employers to remove him from the air. In 1989, the Hallandale City Commission voted to censure Neil Rogers for "offensive comments" that he had made about the elderly. Rogers had survived all such attacks, and indeed, many of them increased his popularity. Starting in 2002, Rogers began broadcasting The Neil Rogers Show eight months a year from his Toronto apartment. It was announced on April 14, 2008, that Rogers had agreed to a new 5-year contract on WQAM, which would have kept "Uncle Neil", as he was called by his fans, firmly on the air until 2013. On the May 13, 2009, show it was announced but not confirmed that Rogers' longtime show producer and fill-in host Jorge Rodriguez was being fired by WQAM in a cost-cutting measure. Rogers' contract included the ability for him to choose his producer and no resolution was found by the end of the program even after Rogers called his agent on the air. Rodriguez's future with the show was a topic of interest in the South Florida media, including the Sun-Sentinel newspaper. Rodriguez's firing was confirmed by Rogers at the start of the May 14, 2009 program. Rodriguez's firing drew a great response from Rogers' fans. Rodriguez later began The Jorge Rodriguez Show on SoFloRadio.com Rodriguez was replaced by WQAM Deputy Program Director Lee "Flee" Feldman. Feldman stated that he worked on The Neil Rogers Show without any increase in his salary. Retirement It was announced on June 22,